Obama-era gun control regulation officially dead

An Obama-era regulation that could have prevented some Social Security recipients from buying firearms is officially dead.

The Social Security Administration has withdrawn a regulation that would have required information on certain disability recipients to be sent to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, something that could make it more difficult for them to purchase a firearm.

Federal gun laws already in place prohibit certain people from owning guns, including those with "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease." At its inception, the Obama administration said as many 4.2 million adult would have been impacted by the restrictions.